Native American, Exceptional Anasazi Pottery Mug With Lug Handle, Ca 1200 to 1300 CE. #1478 SOLD

Native American, Exceptional Anasazi Pottery Mug With Lug Handle, Ca 1200 to 1300 CE. #1478 Description: #1478 Native American, Exceptional Anasazi Pottery Mug With Lug Handle, Ca 1200 to 1300 CE. Native American, Southwestern USA, Colorado, Anasazi/Ancestral Puebloans, ca. 1200 to 1300 CE. An interesting and wonderfully preserved example of larger mug with a small lugged handle just below its rim on one side. The body is painted made in the Mesa Verde Black-on-White tradition from what is today southwestern Colorado, with two bands around it horizontally, each with cross-hatching and diamond shapes that call to mind the dramatic southwestern landscape. Vessels like this one were made from a gray or white paste with angular fragments of temper and this one has a pearly gray-white slip that was then over painted with a black pigment made from carbon. They were made by people who lived in cliff dwellings like those seen at Mesa Verde National Park - indeed at the Park, there is a large h